- Antigua is back in gambling business| 2 Comments
The Antigua Sun reported that the Financial Services Regulatory Commission is estimating a budgetary increase of 100% for the next gambling year (2009), based on the number of online casinos expressing interest. The granting of *white-listing* by the United Kingdom is seen as the dominant factor in the surge. By subjecting themselves to Antiguan regulation, [...]
- Europa Casino adds new payment options| 3 Comments
Online gaming site Europa Online Casino teams up with online payment processing company Moneybookers to expand it’s range of payment options by adding 5 new secure payment methods. German users seeking to make online deposits at Europa Casino can use Giropay, the online e-commerce payment service created by an association of German savings banks, credit unions [...]
- New Year’s resolutions online poker players can make| 2 Comments
With 2009 upon us, we offer Nine New Year’s resolutions online poker players can make, to help improve their fortunes.
1. Focus on your game. You can’t concentrate on poker if you’re poking people on Facebook, cruising adult websites, and watching cricket on telly. You might have more fun, but you’ll end up with a lot less [...]
- Online Gambling in Kentucky| 2 Comments
Even as the state of Kentucky fights to eliminate gambling by seizing the domain names of 141 online casinos, Kentucky track officials are saying increased gambling is probably the only way to save the state’s thoroughbred industry. Governor Steve Beshear has sought to use the courts to rid the horse racing tracks of competition, but even [...]
- Online gambling legalised in Czech Republic| 1 Comment
After months of anticipation - it looks as if the new year will at last see legalised online gambling in the Czech Republic. Radio Praha reports that after years of lobbying and promises to prevent minors from betting on their websites, the country’s five biggest bookies will soon receive permits from the Finance Ministry to introduce [...]
- Boost in play at online casinos| 1 Comment
The strong wintry weather across the U.S. has gambling industry experts predicting a big boost in play at online casinos to close the year. The past eleven months had already been a boom time for the Internet gambling operators, as surveys showed that unique U.S. visitors to online gambling sites was increasing by double digits [...]
- Merry Christmas ixgames customers| 1 Comment
First of all we here at ixgames.com wants to say thanks for the enormous support during 2008 and how the community and our gambling blog has grown.
Merry christmas and happy new year!
If you have a break during the festivities check out some of our many poker freerolls between christmas and new year.
Christmas at full tilt [...]
- Pinatas progressive slot machine jackpot| 2 Comments
Online casino software developer Real Time Gaming has announced that the top prize for its Jackpot Pinatas progressive slot machine has topped one million dollars and could be making one lucky player very happy at Christmas. Jackpot Pinatas Slot is offered at many online casinos, but we recommend to play Jackpot Pinatas Progressive Slot on [...]
- PokerStars Caribbean Adventure| 1 Comment
Boris Becker former tennis star to play in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Poker-Stars marketers have come up with a crowd-puller as a sideshow to the online poker site’s 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure scheduled for early January - a chance for online poker players to take on the former world famous tennis star Boris Becker, who plays [...]
- Real Time Gaming Slots| 1 Comment
New online slots at Cherry Red Casino - The new online slots are, Three Stooges, Coyote Cash, and Rudolph’s Revenge.
Coyote Cash is a game based on a cartoon coyote. The progressive jackpot is randomly triggered. Coyote symbols are substitutes, and bags of cash labeled “loot” are scatters. Other symbols are armored cars, cacti, cow [...]
- Online Gambling bigger than ever| 3 Comments
Unique visitors to online gambling sites by US players climbed eleven percent last month. Even as the Bush administration underhandedly imposed midnight regulations implementing the UIGEA, over sixteen million Americans used the Internet to call up online casinos, according to a market research company.
The current administration, amidst all of their underhanded, have managed to outlaw [...]
- Swedish Market Opening Up| 1 Comment
The National Gambling Consultation has issued a report calling on the Government to partially break up the Svenska Spel monopoly and allow foreign online operators into the Scandinavian nation for the first time.
Svenska Spel is a State-owned gambling monopoly that has come under increasing pressure from the European Commission for violating European Union competition regulations. [...]
- Eastern Europe Gambling| 1 Comment
The global gambling industry is now going east and focusing on the Balkan states and Eastern Europe for its further expansion. Especially the Balkan states are increasingly drawing a lot of interest. A market size of Euro 4.5 billion.
According to the MECN (Media & Entertainment Consulting Network) survey, about 20%-30% of the operators surveyed are [...]
- Blackjack Strategy Card| 1 Comment
Blackjack strategy cards are simple to use. All they are is a chart of the proper play for any situation you may be dealt during a hand. Depending on what you have, it gives you your next move, be it stand, hit, or double down. The first thing you have to do is to make [...]
- New slots game from Online Vegas Casino| 1 Comment
US-friendly online casino ‘Online Vegas’ aiming to bring a new and exciting online casino experience to customers. The new Independence Day slot can be played anywhere from $.001 to $10 and is dominated by the red, white and blue colours of the US flag. The ultimate goal of this slot game is to obtain three [...]
- Real Time U.S. Gaming Casinos| 2 Comments
Find the biggest and best Real Time Gaming casino (RTG) at ixgames.com. Real Time Gaming came up with the motto to *take gaming seriously*. This software company has been part of the online gambling landscape since its inception in the 1990’s and has continually stayed at the forefront in terms of innovation, quality and creativity.
You [...]
- Gamblers are staying home| 2 Comments
Nevada reported it’s worst monthly decline in gambling revenue since the state began compiling such information in 1983, the tourism authority reported the second largest monthly drop in Las Vegas visitors. On the Strip - gambling revenue - the amount gamblers lost - fell 26 percent in October from the same month a year ago - to [...]
- Mainstreet Casino Group Received Full Certification| 1 Comment
The Mainstreet Online Casino Group has received full certification from leading online gambling guide and player advocate.
The Mainstreet Casino Group currently operates four online casinos:
Las Vegas USA Casino
Vegas Casino Online
Slots Plus Casino
Sun Palace Casino
All four online casinos run on the Real Time Gaming Casino platform and are licensed in Costa Rica. Mainstreet shows the resilience [...]
- Regulation of online poker| 1 Comment
The Poker Players Alliance (PPA) launched a new newspaper advertising campaign Tuesday aimed at underscoring the need for federal regulation of poker. The ad - which comes after recent stories on cheating scandals at Ultimate Bet and Absoluter Poker appeared in the Washington Post and 60 Minutes, will be placed in three influential Washington, D.C. newspapers - [...]
- Leadership change at Playboy Enterprises| 2 Comments
Playboy Enterprises announced yesterday that CEO Christie Hefner, daughter of iconic founder Hugh Hefner, will resign her office, effective at the end of January. The news sparked a stock jump of better than 22%, as the tenure of Christie Hefner had finished with the empire her father built struggling with financial difficulties.
Other than the licensing [...]
- Pokerstars advertising on Yatinoo| 1 Comment
Yatinoo, Inc. - announced today that it has signed a joint venture agreement with an industry consulting firm, to display the PokerStars Banner on the Yatinoo site. The PokerStars banner is expected to be operational on the Yatinoo web site within 10 business days.
About Pokerstars: PokerStars.com is the world’s largest online poker room with over [...]
- 10 Resolutions for Online Poker Players| 2 Comments
If you’re playing online poker, there might be a few changes to your game you could make.
Bodog Poker Tips:I will not play in cash games or tournaments that are too big for my bankroll.
I will not play if my mood is poor or I’m upset with something in my life.
I won’t get into arguments with [...]
